The Life and Times of a Fourth Grade Class at the Dalton School in New York City
Here’s our very first Literary Salon! It was also my very first time recording it. So if you can’t hear anything or it sounds weird, I will take all the blame.
Congratulations to those students who bravely prepared and did the readings. More to come!
Yesterday was the annual Edinger House Tea Party and it was great fun as always. The day before, parent Natasha Schlesinger came in and provide an amazing assortment of materials with which the children decorated the hats that they wore proudly at the tea party.
Class parents, Diana Milich and Karen Rogala, did a fantastic job decorating the room,
the students brought yummy treats (lovingly prepared and decorated appropriately with much help from family members and care givers),
recited with gusto poems from the two Alice books,
and played a few rounds of “Pin the Tail on the Cheshire Cat.”
A great time was had by all!
After a choral reading of “Jabberwocky” (scroll to the end of this post to listen) we were treated to Ms. Noble and several of her students reading their “Jabberwocky” parodies. Later several Edinger House students were inspired to write or illustrate their own.
Dragonwocky
by c15am
Hicklywocky
by
c15md
Twas wester, and the slobbery tathes,
Did wabber and wobber in the wabe.
All bickening were the vobodos
And the mom raths outgrabe.
“ Beware of the Hicklywock, my daughter!
The tails that wack, and the wings that flap.
Beware the vooddoob cat and shun
The furauscous wadersnatch!
She took her vorple staff in hand,
Long time the fumascous foe she sought,
So rested by the tum-tum rock,
And sat awhile, and thought.
And as in deeperous thought she sat,
The Hicklywock, with a tail of ice,
Came pushing through the darky wood,
And groloped as it looked around twice.
Three five! Three five! And deeper and deeper,
The vorple staff went clopper-clop.
She left it dead, and with it’s head,
She went halluphing back.
“ And hast thou silenced the Hicklywock?
Come to my arms, my fleamish girl!
O Frambruous day! Kahoo! Kahay!
He worpled in his joy.
Twas wester, and the slobbery tathes,
Did wabber and wobber in the wabe.
All bickening were the vobodos
And the mom raths outgrabe.
Catwocky
by
c15ck
Sallywocky
by
c15ss
Twas frilling tis she resom dee
of wimble and gade and the
mom out said.
Beware the sallywocky my son!
The hair that screeches and the
Eyes that flame. Beware the tuce
cow that she has by her brade.
She took her vorpal gun in hand
That shot bacons and jame
Long time man xome foe he sought
She slept by the suck suck tree for a
While and though.
And there she was this Sallywacky
With pig tails and pig nose.
And took her gun and shot her in her butt
And took it to the king.
The Sallywocky se the jump and
all see the dee ded Sallywocky.
Twas frilling tis she resom dee
of wimble and gade and the
mom out said.
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Afterwards, Natasha Trethewey, read and discussed some of her poems with the students.
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Readings are from:
The Lightning Thief
Sir Thursday
Magyk
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler
Olivia Kidney
Rules
The Amulet of Samarkand
